There are two types of checks between Zabbix Server and Client.
- Passive Check : Zabbix Agent sent data to server on there request.
- Active Check : Zabbix Agent sends data periodically to Server.
After installing zabbix server on your server, Now we are moving to install agent on remote system’s. This article will help you to install zabbix agent on CentOS/RHEL 7/6/5 systems. After completing this step go to next article add Host in Zabbix Server.
Installing Zabbix Agent
Follow the below instructions to install Zabbix Agent on CentOS, RHEL 7/6/5 systems.
Step 1: Add Required Repository
Before installing Zabbix Agent first configure zabbix yum repository using following commands as per your required version and operating system.
CentOS/RHEL 7: # rpm -Uvh http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/2.2/rhel/7/x86_64/zabbix-release-2.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm CentOS/RHEL 6: # rpm -Uvh http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/2.2/rhel/6/x86_64/zabbix-release-2.2-1.el6.noarch.rpm CentOS/RHEL 5: # rpm -Uvh http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/2.2/rhel/5/x86_64/zabbix-release-2.2-1.el5.noarch.rpm
Step 2: Install Zabbix Agent
After installing yum repository packages in our system. Now use following command to install Zabbix agent on your Linux sytem.
# yum installzabbix zabbix-agent
Step 3: Update Zabbix Agent Configuration
As zabbix agent has been successfully installed on our remote system. Now we just need to configure zabbix agent by adding zabbix server ip in its configuration file/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
#Server=[zabbix server ip] #Hostname=[ Hostname of client system ] Server=192.168.1.11 Hostname=Server1
Step 4: Restarting Zabbix Agent
After adding zabbix server ip in configuration file, now restart agent service using below command.
# /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent restart
To start and stop zabbix-agent service anytime use following commands.
# /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent start # /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent sto
